Re: What do we need strict scalar type hints for?

Hi Stas, > On 2 Feb 2015, at 18:56, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi! > >> Keeping that in mind, the declare statement, as ugly as it may look, >> could be actually a killer to finally get what both camps want but >> never (and never will) manage to agree. > > I think having two conceptual frameworks in one language and having to > deal with (and potentially maintain) code bases with mixed conceptual > framework is a very bad idea. That would lead to a language > fragmentation as strict code will become hard to combine with non-strict > code within one application, and pretty soon people will start asking > questions like "is this library written in strict-PHP or non-strict-PHP? > ow, dang, we can't use it because we use the other one…" I don’t see how. This proposal has been specifically designed to allow strict and non-strict code to be completely interoperable. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/